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Wash Board.

No. 242,028. Patented May 24, L881;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. OSBORN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WASH-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 242,028, dated May 24,1881.

Application filed April 14, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. OSBORN, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Wash-Boards, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention consists in the combination, in a wash-board, of acentral partition, two uprights which project on opposite sides beyondthe surfaces of the central partition, two rubbing-surfaces, one on eachface of the central partition, and two shelves hinged between theuprights and adapted to swing up against the central partition or downin a position at right angles thereto, so that a convenient support forsoap or other materials is obtained whichever rubbing-surface may be inuse, and that the shelf not in use can be folded inward to a position inwhich it does not interfere with the use of the wash-board.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 represents a perspective view of my wash-board. Fig. 2 is aface view, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In these drawings the letter A designates the central partition of mywash-board, to the edges of which are firmly secured the uprights B, thewidth of which is greater than the thickness of the partition, as shownin Fig. 3. On the opposite sides of the partition A are formed orsecured the rubbing-surfaces G O, which extend up to traverses D D,fastened between the (No model.)

uprights B. Above these traverses are situated the shelves E E, one oneach side of the partition A, and in order to allow these shelves toswing up or down they are provided with dowel-pins a a at their ends,Fig. 2, which engage with sockets in the uprights B, and the traverses Dare provided with projections b in their middle, to form supports forthe shelves when the latter are turned down into a position at rightangles to the partition A.

By means of the shelves E E a convenient support for soap, brushes, andother articles is obtained when the wash-board is in use, and at thesame time, if one of the rubbing-surfaces is in use the shelf on theopposite side of the partition A can be turned up flat against saidpartition, so that it does in no wise interfere with the operation ofthe wash-board.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, in a wash-board, of the central partition, the twouprights which pro ject on opposite sides beyond the surfaces of saidpartition, the two rubbing-surfaces, one on each face of the partition,the two shelves hinged between the uprights, and a support for each, allconstructed to operate substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WM. E. OSBORN. [L. s] Witnesses W. HAUFF, J. HERMANN WAHLEBS.

